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Pornography resolution advances to the Senate floor

A joint resolution in the Tennessee General Assembly condemning pornography as a "public health crisis" and making men less interested in marrying is on its way to a floor vote after passing the Senate Health and Welfare Committee on Wednesday.

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A joint resolution in the Tennessee General Assembly condemning pornography as a "public health crisis" and making men less interested in marrying is on its way to a floor vote after passing the Senate Health and Welfare Committee on Wednesday.

Reintroduced this session by Sen. Mae Beavers, R-Mt. Juliet, the resolution would not making any new binding laws, but would recognize "the need for education, prevention, research, and policy change at the community and societal level in order to address the epidemic that is harming the people of our State and our country as a whole."

"I think all of us can recognize that pornography has become a problem, especially with our kids and grandkids on the internet and iPads," Beavers said in committee.

The resolution claims that more millennials are exposed to pornography at a younger age, causing eating disorders and that "children and youth are exposed to pornography that often times serves as their sex education and shapes their sexual templates."